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...investors, this is a good time to contemplate such a turn. Tech stocks have repaired their millennial meltdown, giving you another chance to sell high, and you've seen that a "diversified" portfolio of Intel, Microsoft, Cisco, Lucent and Yahoo doesn't offer much panic protection. Tech remains a great place to be long term--but not exclusively...
...that only the first 500 characters of each message are transmitted--and push a button to retrieve the rest of any message I want to read to the end. And the cradle that plugs into my PC and allows me to synchronize it with Microsoft Outlook, Scheduler+ and Lotus Organizer--if I used any of those programs--doubles as a recharger, which is included in eLink's $359 price. (By contrast, the Blackberry costs $399, and you don't get a recharger...
...have the answers right now. But first, a few disclosures are necessary. Readers have the right to know that TIME magazine will be part of AOL Time Warner. The author of this essay, by contrast, has a day job as editor of Slate, an online magazine published by Microsoft. Microsoft owns an online service, msn, that competes with AOL. Microsoft and AOL Time Warner will have competing investments in the cable industry. On yet another hand, Microsoft and Time Warner are co-investors in a high-speed cable-Internet connection business called Roadrunner. On a fourth hand, Microsoft owns...
Readers should also take into consideration that Microsoft is a partner with NBC, which is owned by General Electric, in an all-news cable channel, MSNBC, which competes with CNN, which is owned by AOL Time Warner. What's more, the editor in chief of MSNBC.com the cable channel's affiliated website, is my mother's brother's wife's aunt's husband's nephew, which obviously makes it difficult for me to evaluate objectively the merits of a merger between a company (AOL) that recently bought the company (Netscape) that makes the Internet browser that competes with the browser...
This is mitigated, however, by the fact that GE--again, a partner of Microsoft in MSNBC--is also a partner, with Disney and Hearst (which, along with Dow Jones, owns SmartMoney magazine; more on that later), in A&E, the Arts & Entertainment cable channel, which is showing a made-for-TV movie starring Jeff Daniels as George Washington, which I haven't seen but which is hard not to hold against these companies anyway. What's worse, GE has direct links, via co-ownership of CNBC, the financial-news cable channel, with Dow Jones, which publishes the Wall Street Journal...